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SEAL OF THE CORPORATION. AOOPTEO OCT. 19, 1767 




FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 
Goshen, N. V., 1S71. 



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1720-1895 



ROBERT BRUCE CLARK, PASTOR 




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CCfjurcf) in tfje Uillage of ©oshcn, dountg of ©range, State 
of flcto govk; ccclcsiasticallg rclatct to the prcsbgtcrg of 
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to the praise of (§00, — Jatljcr, Son, ant Jtjolg (©host, — 
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thereof, in grateful recognition of tfje signal fnuor of Jtjcabcn 
throughout a long historu of prospcritg ant peace. 




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PASTORS. 

Rev. John Bradner 1721-1732 

" Silas Leonard 1 734-1 758 

" Abner Brush 1 758-1766 

" Nathan Ker 1 766-1804 

" Isaac Lewis 1805-1812 

" Ezra Fisk, D.D 1813-1833 

" James R. Johnston 1835-1839 

" Robert McCartee, D.D 1S40-1849 

" William D. Snodgrass, D.D. . . . 1 849-1885 

" Robert Bruce Clark 1S85- 



TDACK from the echolcss past, 

From the land of the last long sleep, 
There comes no sound or sigh, 

Though the night be still and deep. 
The hands we warmly clasped 

Have surrendered to earth again. 
And the Angel of Death has reckoned 

The sum of their loss and gain. 
May we who linger still 

On the shore of Life's wide sea, 
For a light to be revealed 

That transfigures all who see, 
Know, as it ivas t'will be again, 

Fashion our lives as we will, 
Till the Veil is rent and the glory seen 

That shall all our hopes fulfil. 

j. B. s. 



®ijc &nnibcrsanj 

Commemorated uu Scrbiccs, 

from Sunoau to STljursoag, 

Spril 21 to 25, 

1895, 

Mitfj trtrtiresscs bv rcptesrntati&fa from tfje follotoing 
Christian Bodies : — 

fHcUjonist, Prrgogtcrinn, 

Eaptiat, ©isciplra of Cfjrtsst, 

itfongrcgntional ano Ucformrt. 




A CHURCH BIOGRAPHY 

OF 

ONE HUNDRED and SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS. 

1720-1895. 

LL about us the ground is memorable. 
Here predatory beasts were once native 
and numerous. A capital price was 
put upon wolves, and the Governor-General in- 
dicated its necessity to the House of Lords. 
Redmen roamed over this landscape, until they 
were crowded into the interior and were deci- 
mated by the merciless and tireless push of 
immigration. Patriots who cherished the bil- 
lowy beauty and fertility of the land travelled 
over its hills and plains in anxiety and vigi- 
lance. One time General Washington rode 
eastward along the Florida highway towards 
his headquarters at Newburg, and stopped with 
his staff to chat a moment with the children at 
the old stone schoolhouse near the stone-crusher 
quarry. The Rev. Nathan Ker, who had the 

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appellation " priest," settled here during the 
Revolutionary period. Ker — himself an ardent 
patriot — is said to have dismissed his congrega- 
tion once in the midst of a Sunday service, that 
they might prepare food for a troop of horse in 
the patriot service which had halted in the town 
on their way to Philadelphia. This precinct was 
sparsely settled. The perils fringing the settle- 
ment during the French and Indian war were 
many. The frontier was hardly four miles away. 
Two block-houses, one at Dolsontown and one 
at Scotchtown, were places of defence and ref- 
uge. Settlers westward of the Wallkill flocked 
to Goshen during this period. The heroism of 
our ancestors enriches the record, and the bones 
of the valiant hallow the dust about this church. 
The worthy names of those in the Colonial ser- 
vice are now borne by many of the people of 
Goshen, and appear on the " roster " of the 
Goshen regiment at the battles of Long Island 
and White Plains, in the defence of the High- 
lands, at the disastrous capture of Fort Mont- 
gomery, and in the slaughter of Minisink, — 
chiselled on the memorial shaft that stands silent 
and eloquent in the rear of this church. 

Eager observes that perhaps no county in the 
State was settled as early as Orange, but subse- 
quently gives precedence to Ulster, saying that 

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the settlement of that county had a large and 
controlling influence on the after population of 
Orange. Governor Nicolls, in 1664, wrote: " The 
lands which I intend shall be first planted are 
those upon the west side of Hudson's River." 
Rutenber states that these lands, excepting the 
"Great Plot," or about four thousand acres, — 
where Kingston now stands, — which the War- 
ranawonkong chiefs gave to Governor Stuyvesant 
" to grease his feet," were the first lands to which 
Europeans had title. These lands were called 
Shawangunk, — " the white man's country." 
About 1700 there was an eager quest for land 
titles. Companies were formed, in many in- 
stances composed of officials whose intent was 
to get titular possession of the lands, and super- 
sede, if not obliterate, the Indian titles. Thus 
extensive tracts were obtained. Three princi- 
pal patents are mentioned in this connection, 
— the Chesekook Patent, the Wawayanda Pat- 
ent, and the Minisink Patent. The Waway- 
anda Patent chiefly concerns present interest. 
This patent was by purchase of March 5, 1703, 
from the following native redmen and owners, — 
Rapingonick, Wawastawa, Moghopuck, Come- 
lawaw, Nanawitt, Arawinack, Rombout, Claus, 
Chouckhass, Chingapaw, Oshasquememus, and 
Quilapaw. The patent was granted April 29. 

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There were twelve patentees in the first agree- 
ment, and the land was held by a deed in 
common until 1706, when it was separated into 
twelve parts. Only eight of the original share- 
holders then stood ; others succeeding to the re- 
maining four interests. 

This large tract was unoccupied until 17 12, 
when the surviving patentees, Christopher Denne, 
Daniel Cromeline, and Benjamin Aske them- 
selves settled on it. They were joined by 
Christian Snedeker from Long Island, who had 
acquired an interest in the patent. A thirteenth 
shareholder of the patent, Dr. Samuel Staats, 
came into record in 17 13. An amount of land 
equalling in extent four of the thirteen shares of 
the patent came into possession of John Everett 
and Samuel Clowes in 1714. 

Counties began to be organized into towns and 
precincts as early as 1686, but the township of 
Goshen was not established till 17 14. The pre- 
cinct of Goshen, comprising the outlying settle- 
ments, with the town as a political centre, came 
later, and remained in use until 1788, when the 
township was expanded to take its place. It ap- 
pears that it was stipulated, in the deed to Everett 
and Clowes, that the township should be laid out, 
and that two hundred acres should be eiven to a 
minister as soon as the people should select one. 

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There were ten counties in New York, then a 
province, in 1 704. Albany had a church, West- 
chester had an unfinished church, and Ulster had 
a minister; but Orange County, with its sixty 
families of various nationalities, had neither 
church nor minister, nor the ability to support 
one. 

The Presbyterian church of Goshen was or- 
ganized in 1720, within six years after the town- 
ship of Goshen was established, and while yet 
but very few families were located here. The 
census of 1738 shows that the entire precinct of 
Goshen had but three hundred and nineteen 
white males above ten years of age. This was 
not only the first Presbyterian organization, but 
the first church organization of any name in the 
county of Orange. A Lutheran church was es- 
tablished in Newburg in 1709, by the grant of a 
glebe of five hundred acres for " the sole and 
only proper use, benefit, and behoof of a Lutheran 
minister, to serve and have the care of the inhabi- 
tants and their successors forever." There also 
was the Maghaghameck Church (Reformed 
Church of Port Jervis), which probably was organ- 
ized before 1700. But neither of those places was 
in Orange County in 1720. 

According to the terms of agreement, the pro- 
prietors of the land of Goshen were to give two 

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hundred acres of land to such minister as the 
owners of the town lots should select, while they 
were to be assessed ten acres for every hundred 
they possessed, towards highways and burying- 
ground, parsonage house, and public uses. In 
1 72 1, one year after the organizing of the Goshen 
church, the people agreed upon the Rev. John 
Bradner, a Presbyterian minister; and the trans- 
fer of land for the purposes decreed by the pat- 
entees was effected. There was pronounced 
Scotch blood in this transaction, on the side of 
both the people and their minister. Strong in- 
ferences and plain language are convincing that 
while the grant of land was to be made to the 
first religious body that would settle a minis- 
ter and maintain the ordinances of religion in 
Goshen, it was surely expected that the church 
and minister thus benefited would be Presby- 
terian. The language of the conveyance of the 
trust for the church specifies that it shall be used 
only for and by the Presbyterian persuasion. 
Two deeds of property were executed, — one par- 
cel of one hundred and forty acres for the church, 
and another parcel of two hundred acres to the 
Rev. John Bradner personally. The public high- 
way, or main street, formerly divided the present 
church park, continuing in a straight line from 
Johnson's corner across the ground now occupied 

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by the county building and the church. The 
land set apart for the church extended one mile 
on both sides of the old Main Street, at a width 
of about thirty-five rods. This strip extended 
from the street now between the Court House 
and the Methodist Church, to a point nearly 
across Church Street, as now known. 

The two hundred acres given to Rev. 
John Bradner, deeded April 17, 1722, and re- 
corded April 8, 1 742, at the request of his widow, 
was in a strip about seven hundred feet wide, 
from Church Street to the rear of lots on the 
south side of Green Street, and extending one 
mile from the old main street towards Chester. 
The instrument which conveys the land for 
church and public uses is dated July 17, 1721, 
and recorded, at the request of Rev. John Bradner, 
March 27, 1732, not long before his death, which 
occurred the same year. The deed grants and 
confirms unto one John Yalverton of the town 
of Goshen, Yeoman, and his heirs and assigns 
forever, three parcels of land (one hundred and 
forty acres in all), for Rev. John Bradner to hold, 
use, and possess while he continues to be the 
minister, and after him his successors of the 
Presbyterian persuasion, for a burying-place, a 
Presbyterian meeting-house, a parsonage, town- 
house, school-house, or for any other public use, 

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within the intent of said deed. The trust was 
subsequently conveyed to the officers of the 
church. The provisions of the deed were faith- 
fully fulfilled. A parsonage was in contempla- 
tion even when the conveyance was made, and 
shortly after it was built. Immediate plans were 
undertaken to begin the building of a house of 
worship, which doubtless was begun not long 
after the land was obtained, probably in the year 
1724, but evidently it was in process of comple- 
tion for several years. It stood on the spot 
where now is the Court House. Of this build- 
ing we have no clear information, saving the 
knowledge that it was a plain frame structure. 
The interior arrangement of the seats and the 
names of the seat-holders as they were in 1797, 
are shown in one of the full-page illustrations of 
this book. The burying-ground required by the 
deed of land covered the ground about the site of 
the present church building and the county 
building. Its use for that purpose was discon- 
tinued when the necessity of building changes 
arose. 

At the founding of the Presbyterian Church, 
courts had never been held here, and none 
was convened until 1727. By an Act passed 
Dec. 16, 1737, the first court-house and jail 
were erected and completed in 1740, on the 

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site of the western end of the present Orange 
Hotel. This was repaired fourteen years after- 
ward, and finally demolished in 1775, when a 
new one was erected on the church plot, at the 
point where now stands the county clerk's office. 
The arms of King George III. were placed in 
ornament on the front of the building, but were 
quickly torn down by the indignant citizens. A 
school-house was built on the church plot in 
1 801, precisely where now is seen the old brick 
public-school building on Greenwich Street. In 
this school Noah Webster taught. When the 
second church edifice was begun, during the 
ministry of the Rev. Isaac Lewis, it occupied 
a place in the present park facing east, and 
there remained until crowded away by the stone 
building which now is the religious home of the 
flock. This left vacant the site of the old 
church, and the ground was given to the county 
for a nominal consideration, and the present 
Court House was reared there in 1841. The first 
Clerk's office stood upon the site of the Surro- 
gate's building; the second was at the apex of 
the park triangle. The first building was erected 
in 18 10; the second in 185 1, which was enlarged 
in 1887 by the additional grant of land to the 
county by the church. Besides these buildings 
for public uses on church land, are the brick 

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structure formerly used by the Supervisors and 
Surrogate of the county, and the village engine- 
house to the west. School buildings for both 
boys and girls stood on the church grounds, and 
the memory of them lingers in the life of the 
more venerable Goshenites unto this day ; while 
the Farmers' Hall Academy is frequently cited 
as the school where many of the present ideas 
first began to shoot. At the west corner of the 
church park Claudius Smith was hanged, Jan. 
13, 1779. The inhabitants hereabouts had scant 
patience with treason and murder. The scenes 
enacted at that time have furnished food for tra- 
dition and homily during succeeding generations. 
On the gallows near the same spot forty years 
later, two others were publicly put to death for 
murder. 

The Presbyterian church of Goshen joins 
together nearly two entire calendar centuries, 
and within a little time will extend its history 
into the beginning of a third. The remarkable 
item of this long period is its unbroken and use- 
ful influence in this locality. The character of 
the people, and of their ministers too, may be in- 
dicated by the long tenure of the pastorate. One 
year after the organization of the church a set- 
tled pastor was secured ; and during the one and 
three-quarters centuries since, there has been no 

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considerable time intervening in the succession of 
ministers. Two years' interval is the longest that 
is noted, while usually the new pastor is settled 
in the same year his predecessor yields up the 
charge. There have been but ten pastors in this 
long range of time, the tenth pastor now serving 
in the tenth year of his incumbency. This is 
an average pastorate of seventeen and one half 
years. The shortest pastorate was that of the 
Rev. James R. Johnston, — about four years; the 
longest, that of the Rev. Nathan Ker, — thirty- 
eight years. It is said that there was preaching 
in Goshen as early as 17 15, and that an itinerant 
clergyman, named Treat, often held religious 
service here. 

The first pastor was Rev. John Bradner, 1721- 
1732, of whom there is but little trustworthy 
account. Two traditions are given by his de- 
scendants : one is that he studied at the Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, and after a time 
eloped with Christian Colvill, the daughter of 
its president, married her, and migrated to 
America from Newcastle, England. Owing to 
accident, the ship put back to the Isle of Man. 
It was more than twelve months before they ar- 
rived on this continent. Their first child was 
born on the voyage hither. He is said to have 
had red hair, which does not interest us so much 

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as the discrimination he used in selecting his 
wife, and the romantic circumstances of his mar- 
riage and wedding trip. The other view only 
slightly modifies this. The John Bradner who 
married Miss Colvill, daughter of a Scotch earl 
(who may also have been head of the University), 
and eloped to this country, is said to be the father 
of the first minister at Goshen, and it was the 
Goshen pastor who was born on the deep on the 
voyage hither. It is agreed that he preached at 
Cape May, N. J., some twelve years before he 
settled here ; and this was the place of his death 
and burial. Of his family we know nothing ex- 
cept that he had a son, the Rev. Benoni Bradner, 
who preached in the Jamaica Presbyterian Church 
in 1760 and 1761. There are now with us de- 
scendants of Rev. John Bradner, who trace their 
lineage from him, his son Benjamin, and his 
son Colvill (the maternal ancestral name), two 
of whose children, Lois Bradner and Mrs. Sarah 
Colvill Van Duzer, worship here to-day. Rev. 
John Tudor supplied the pulpit for a short 
interval, after the decease of Mr. Bradner. 

The second pastor, the Rev. Silas Leonard, 
began his labors here in 1 734, and ended them in 
1758. A schism occurred in the church about 
1745, brought on by the " New Lights," or " Sep- 
aratists," as they were called. There is some 

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conflict of opinion concerning the dates of this 
pastorate, but no indisputable evidence appears 
that would lead to a change in the transmitted 
and accepted chronology. 

Following him came the Rev. Abner Brush, 
third pastor of the church, who was installed in 
the fall of 1758, and remained until May, 1766, 
when the Presbytery dissolved his pastoral rela- 
tion with the church, after which he supplied the 
Marlborough church several years. Not an item 
concerning: these men or their work can be ob- 
tained beyond the dates of their incumbency ; 
yet Mr. Leonard was the acceptable pastor of 
the flock for twenty-four years, and died in the 
midst of his friends. 

Rev. Nathan Ker, A.M., succeeded to the pas- 
torate in the fall of 1766, and continued, active, 
faithful, patriotic, and beloved, until Dec. 14, 
1S04, when he died, and was interred near by the 
church he had served so well. We have his 
handwriting in the records of the church, from the 
year after he came until he fell on sleep. His 
pastorate synchronized with the bleak distress of 
the Colonists under the exactions of King George, 
and with the inevitable revolt in independence 
and revolution that followed. He was contem- 
porary with Washington as commander of the 
patriot forces, and as president of the young Re- 

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public for the first two terms of its life, and he 
outlived the Father of his Country by just five 
years. His impress is left upon this whole sec- 
tion. He was the first moderator of the Presby- 
tery of Hudson, which was organized and first 
convened in the Franklin church, Nov. 1 7, 1 795 ; 
and the Presbyterian church of Deer Park is 
supposed to have been organized by him. 

Dr. Sprague's " Annals of the American Pul- 
pit " has this : " Rev. Nathan Ker, son of William 
and Katharine Ker, was born in Freehold, N. J., 
Sept. 7, 1736. Hopefully converted under the 
preaching of Rev. William Tennent, he entered 
Princeton, where he graduated in 1761. The 
next year he was licensed by the Presbytery of 
New Brunswick, and, Aug. 17, 1763, was ordained 
by the same body. Shortly after he was settled 
at Goshen. He was a zealous Whig in the Revo- 
lution, and served for some time as a voluntary 
chaplain in the American army. He was a man 
of well balanced and well cultivated mind, en- 
larged and liberal views, earnest piety and exten- 
sive influence. He published a volume in the 
'American Preacher ' (Vol. IV.), entitled ' God's 
Sovereignty in conferring Means and Grace,' 

1 793-" 

In a rusty book of ancient date — no imprint 

being given — there is a forceful sermon by Mr. 

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Ker, published with other sermons by such emi- 
nent clergymen as MacWhorter, Dana, Linn, Bur- 
net, and Tennent, on the " Component Parts of 
Christ's Church, and the Advantages of Union," 
from Ephesians iv. 15-16, which reveals a master 
mind and a real spiritual insight. If the glowing 
presence, the personal magnetism, and the living 
voice could have been printed with the language, 
there would be for us a living picture of the whole 
preacher. In Rivington's " Tory Gazette," June 
14, 1780, a rather serio-comic incident is related 
of this Goshen pastor. It was shearing-time ; 
the deacons were about to collect the fleece, and 
he was using every argument to induce the pay- 
ment of their subscriptions, with due allowance 
for the depreciation of the paper currency. He 
complained that their neglect of the minister had 
convoked many judgments on their heads. Then, 
with uplifted hands, and directly addressing the 
Almighty in plaintive tone, he said: "O God! 
our corn is blasted ! Our fruit is all cut off! Our 
flax is caught under the snow, so that we shall 
soon have- neither shirt nor shift ! and what, O 
God, dost you intend to do with thy people next? " 
The following names of the children of Rev. 
Nathan Ker, and Anne, his wife, appear on the 
church records as having been baptized : Oliver 
Livermore, born 1 766 ; Catharine, 1 767 ; Han- 

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V 



THE REV. EZRA FIS! 



nah, 1769; Margaret Clark, 1770; Mary, 1772; 
and Elizabeth, 1774- Margaret Clark, who be- 
came Mrs. Freeman, joined this church in 1 793. 
Elizabeth, who joined the church at the same 
time, became Mrs. McCarthy. With the termina- 
tion of Nathan Ker's pastorate, we are ushered 
into the present century. 

Rev. Isaac Lewis became the fifth pastor. 
He was received from the Presbytery of Oneida 
in November, 1S05, and was installed at Goshen 
Jan. 1, 1S06. Six years and six months was the 
period of his office, which was discontinued, by 
mutual consent, July 1, 181 2, after which he was 
dismissed to the Presbytery of New York. His 
handwriting engrosses some of the sessional rec- 
ords of the church ; and if he were as trim and 
neat a man as his writing indicates, he was surely 
very seemly and attractive. His wife, Catharine, 
joined this church, May 31, 1806, by letter from 
Cooperstown. 

The Rev. Ezra Fisk, D.D., was the next in suc- 
cession. He was born in Shelburne, Mass., Jan. 
10, 1785, and buried in Goshen in 1833. He is 
still remembered, by those whose life has passed 
beyond the scriptural longevity, as strong and 
powerful in his great office. He came in August, 
181 3, and was installed April 21, 18 14. He con- 
tinued here a score of years. At the beginning 

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of his pastorate the second church edifice was 
dedicated. Six years later, in 1S19, the Presby- 
tery of Hudson was diminished by cutting off 
the churches that formed the Presbytery of North 
River. His wife, Esther, joined this church, May 
6, 1813. The Goshen "Democrat" of March 8, 
1875, publishes a communication by " T. L. J.," of 
Montgomery, with the discourse of Dr. Fisk de- 
livered at the execution of James Teed and David 
Dunning for the murder of Richard Jennings, 
with the startling title, " Sin finds out the Crim- 
inal." The correspondent uses this Scripture as 
a headline, " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by 
man shall his blood be shed." ychovah ! The 
text was, " Be sure your sin will find you out " 
(Num. xxxii. 23). The occasion was as thrilling 
as it was unique and rare. The preacher enunci- 
ated his message, from a platform erected for the 
occasion, to an audience estimated from 25,000 
to 50,000, with the unfortunate condemned men 
standing beneath the gallows ready to be swung 
off, their altitude giving force to the truth, " Thou 
art the man ! " Viewed from this period, the 
picture as it strikes the fancy has a decidedly 
uncanny and grewsome aspect ; but even a hasty 
reading of that discourse stamps it as a majestic 
utterance under most painful and difficult con- 
ditions. It is intensely scriptural, with the in- 

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THE CHURCH. ERECTED 1812. 



exorable logic of sovereignty that almost figures 
the Divine Judge on his throne, with the crimi- 
nal transfixed in full view. In the application 
and appeal to the condemned men at the close, 
both justice and mercy are interwrought like 
mingled lightning and rainbow, and the judicial 
phrase, " May God have mercy on your souls," is 
worked out in detail ; yet there was more ten- 
derness in the preacher than would be in the 
judge. In the winter of 1832 and 1833, Dr. 
Fisk's health became impaired. He went South, 
and while there wrote a touching pastoral let- 
ter to the congregation, dated Lexington, Ga., 
Jan. 30, 1833, which was read in church. It 
breathes an unaffected solicitude for his flock, 
and a yearning for them that unquestionably 
was tenderly reciprocated. The fine spirit of 
the man looks out from every sentence. During 
his absence Rev. John N. Lewis supplied the 
pulpit. It was the time of some rancor between 
the old and new school elements of the church. 
A slight disaffection arose. This may have 
checked the recovery of his health, as an ounce 
of slight will overbalance a ton of tonic on a 
human heart. He returned from the South, and 
in September, 1833, resigned his charge to take 
the professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the 
Western Theological Seminary. He was taken 

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ill at Philadelphia on his journey to his new 
post, and died there December 5. Elder Luther 
Harris went to Philadelphia and brought the 
remains hither, and he was buried from this 
church. Dr. Fisk graduated from Williams Col- 
lege in 1809. He married the daughter of Rev. 
Francis Cummins, D.D. There were no children 
from this marriage. The degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was given him by Hamilton College 
in 1825. He was a trustee of Williams College 
from 1823, and a director of Princeton Seminary 
from 1825 till his death, and was elected Mod- 
erator of the General Assembly in 1833. 

In the ground, a little to the west from this 
church, lie the remains of three distinguished 
pastors of this people. A stone formerly marked 
their resting-place, and this was the inscription : 

Here repose the remains of Rev. John Bradner, a 
native of Scotland, the first pastor of the Presby- 
terian Church of Goshen, settled a. d. 1721, and 
died 1732. 

* 

Also of Rev. Nathan Ker, his successor, who preached 
the Gospel in this place for 38 years, died Dec. 14, 
1804. 

* 

Also of his successor, Rev. Ezra Fisk, D.D., who was 
born Jan. 10, 1785, at Shelburne, Mass., settled as 
pastor of the Goshen Church, Aug. 13, 1813, died 
Dec. s, 1833, aged 49 years. 

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THE REV. JAMES R. JOHNSTON. 



The boys of a generation or so ago had no 
qualms about pushing their sports into the 
grounds of the "city of the dead;" and they 
are reported to have used a portion of the 
greensward for a ball field, of which the tomb- 
stone just described was second base. Some of 
our elders, now of such serious mien and statu- 
esque decorum, cavorted hereabouts with youthful 
and irrepressible ardor. In a moment of excite- 
ment, a runner, " Rant Pitts," jumped upon the 
stone and broke it asunder, and the place that 
once knew it now knows it no more. This is 
the irony of fate. 

The seventh pastor was Rev. James R. John- 
ston, who was received from the New York 
Presbytery in April, 1835. When the call was 
presented to this Presbytery, it was accompanied 
by a remonstrance. The commissioner from the 
congregation was James W. Wilkin. Presbytery 
considered both sides, and finally installed Mr. 
Johnston, April 30, 1835. Difficulties existed 
in the church, upon which a committee from 
the Presbytery conferred with the Session, and 
reported, in September, 1S36, " that they had 
been unable to effect a settlement of said diffi- 
culties." Mr. Johnston's pastorate terminated 
Oct. 16, 1839, by his resignation. Ill health 
was the reason assigned. He went from here 

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to the church at Campbell Hall. He was ad- 
mittedly a rare preacher and a scholarly man. 
It is presumed that the differences which mani- 
fested themselves the final year of Dr. Fisk's 
pastorate — which can be explained entirely 
apart from anything personal cither to him or 
to Mr. Johnston — may have occasioned un- 
pleasantness and dispersion. It was about that 
time there was an exodus from this church of 
perhaps twenty families, who colonized and 
formed the Denton Church. 

The genial and sparkling Dr. McCartee fol- 
lowed Mr. Johnston. His happy presence and 
illuminated face are household memories through- 
out this congregation. He came to Goshen in 
the plenitude of his manly powers, and was in- 
stalled the 6th of May, 1840. He was born 
Sept. 30, 1 791, in the city of New York, in the 
same house in which his father, Peter McCartee, 
and his grandfather were born before him. His 
boyhood had the distinguished influence of the 
ministry of the celebrated Dr. John M. Mason. 
He graduated from Columbia College in 1S08, 
in his seventeenth year, and at once began the 
study of law, being admitted to the bar in due 
course. His conversion about this time altered 
the plan of his life. The ministry of the gospel 
summoned him, and he entered the seminary of 

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REV. ROBERT McCART 



the Associate Reformed Church in New York, 
and directly upon his licensure by his Presbytery 
was in demand by several churches. His gifts 
and disposition were quickly recognized. The 
broad training preparatory to his preaching 
qualified him in no ordinary manner to meet and 
captivate men. His usefulness was yet further 
enhanced when he married Miss Jessie Bethune, 
a worthy daughter of the honored Mr. Divie 
Bethune. He had settlements in the Old Scots 
Church, Spruce Street, Philadelphia ; then in the 
Irish Presbyterian Church of Orange Street, 
New York, where soon was gathered one of the 
largest congregations in the city, and indeed its 
membership of nearly one thousand was almost 
unprecedented in those days. The exactions of 
this great field made such inroads on his strength 
that he yielded to the entreaties of his family and 
friends, and in 1836 took the small church in 
Port Carbon, in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. 
In the spring of 1840 he came to this church, 
was installed the 6th of May, and remained until 
the 31st of July, 1849. After Goshen he had 
pastorates in Newburg and in New York, which 
was his last. He spent the last three years of 
his life at Yonkers, where he died, March 12, 
1865. He was gifted with deep emotion, vivid 
fancy, fluency of thought and language, and an 

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unusually sonorous and flexible voice. The de- 
gree of D. D. was conferred upon him by his 
Alma Mater, 1831. He was a successful preacher 
and pastor; his earnest and eloquent manner 
winning many to the Kingdom. During his 
work in Goshen a revival affected the whole 
community, and many were added to the church ; 
these were in addition to accessions steadily 
during his ministry. He was favored thus in 
every church over which he was pastor. There 
are not a few of those now with us who recall 
his beaming face and kindly, jovial disposition. 
He was the charm of many a social occasion, 
the friend whose sympathies were ample for 
the whole parish ; and many sought him for 
advice and comfort upon a great variety of 
subjects. His memory yet lingers about this 
church and community like the fragrance of 
fresh violets. 

The Rev. William D. Snodgrass, D.D., was the 
ninth pastor. He came to the church in his fifty- 
fourth year, and remained the active pastor for 
thirty-six years, — a fact which bears unimpeach- 
able testimony to his ability as a preacher and a 
man, and to the substantial affection of the people. 
Nor is it to be inferred that he was a charge 
upon their indulgence, for he fulfilled the duties 
of pastor even to the last year of his life. During 

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his last ten years many demands upon him were 
dismissed, and the burden of pulpit work and 
weekly services was shared or assumed by assist- 
ants, the Rev. Arthur Newman and the Rev. Lee 
W. Beattie, who performed about all the pastoral 
work; yet he continued to preach almost every 
Lord's Day morning until the end of his active 
ministry. It is so recently that his venerable 
and gentle life was ended, that even the young 
can easily recollect his face, his voice, and his 
presence here. The necessity for extended biog- 
raphy seems needless, and this especially because 
it is difficult to describe one who has so recently 
been with us. His birthplace was West Hanover, 
Penn. His father, Rev. James Snodgrass, had 
been pastor of that church for thirteen years 
when, in 1 796, the future pastor of Goshen was 
born. The son inherited a penchant for long 
pastorates, as his father was the minister of the 
West Hanover Church for sixty-three years, from 
17S3 to 1846. He graduated from Washington 
College in the class of 181 5, and three years later 
from Princeton Seminary. His first settlement 
was at Fayetteville, N. C, from 1819 to 1822, 
after which he was awhile in the Presbyterian 
Church at Savannah, Ga. The climate did 
not agree with his health, and he accepted a call 
from the Murray Street Church in New York 

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THE REV. WM. D. SNODGRASS, t>. D. 



City, to succeed the famous Dr. J. M. Mason. 
This was a courageous step for a young man but 
twenty-seven, to assume the place of such an 
acknowledged celebrity ; but he sustained his 
position, and established a distinguished reputa- 
tion in the metropolis, which he maintained for 
the period of nearly eleven years, from 1823 to 
1834. Then he accepted the charge of the 
Second Presbyterian Church of Troy, where he 
continued his service for ten years. After this 
he returned to the city, and assumed the pastor- 
ate of the Fifteenth Street Church. His call to 
Goshen was followed by his installation here 
Nov. 7, 1849. After serving this flock long 
and faithfully, when in his ninetieth year, he 
asked to be released from his pastoral office. 
At a meeting of the people Oct. 28, 1885, he 
was made " Pastor Emeritus " at a salary of $800, 
with the use of the parsonage. After this he 
preached but once or twice. His death occurred, 
after a brief illness, May 28, 1S86, and he was 
buried at the cemetery on Slate Hill, where now 
a sarcophagus marks the resting-place of his 
remains. It was an imposing occasion when the 
funeral was held in the church. The great edi- 
fice was thronged. The village stores were closed 
in token of respect. Visitors from abroad congre- 
gated in large numbers to attend the obsequies. 

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Representatives from Princeton Seminary, of 
which he had been a director, were here, and a 
large delegation from the Hudson Presbytery. 
The Orange County Bible Society also gathered 
in honor of its late president. Nine clergy- 
men participated in the services, which were 
plain and impressive, and continued just one 
hour. Loving friends have placed on the wall 
of the church a tablet to his memory, with this 
inscription : — 

^n apcmoriam. 

Rev. William D. Snodgrass, D.D. 

Born June 30TH, 1796. Died May 28th, 1886. 

Thirty-Six Years Pastor of this Church 

From 1849 to 1885. 

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Let us remember the words that he spake while yet with us, 
and follow him, as he followed Christ. 



Dr. Snodgrass urged the building of the pres- 
ent church, and was a helpful adviser in the 
process of its erection. There may have been 
some reluctance to leave the old building; and 
when, after several vain appeals to move in the 
new enterprise, the spire of the church was 
struck by lightning, Dr. Snodgrass observed that 

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THE REV. ROBERT BRUCE CLARK. 



the voice of man had not availed, hence the 
voice of heaven had spoken for a new church. 
It was then that an old couplet was revised, — 

" Old Goshen, proud people ; 
Old Church, no steeple." 

The new church came, with a massive new 
steeple, — which afterward had to be rased to 
the ground although not struck by lightning, — 
and no one was more the cynosure of eyes when 
it was dedicated than the white-haired pastor, 
then three quarters of a century old. A re- 
freshing awakening marked the beginning of his 
pastorate, and in 1873 a gracious revival brought 
into the church nearly threescore converts, rang- 
ing in years from the child to the old man. 
Its memory even now arouses gratitude and 
praise. 

The tenth and present pastor, the Rev. Robert 
Bruce Clark, a native of Newark, N. J., a gradu- 
ate of Amherst College 1876 and of Union 
Seminary 1879, was ordained and installed, Oct. 
16, 1879, in the Presbyterian Church of State 
Centre, Iowa, by the Presbytery of Waterloo, 
and remained its pastor more than four years, 
then moving to Chicago, where for two years 
he was pastor of the Forty-first Street Pres- 
byterian Church. Dec. 20, 18S5, he preached 
in this church, was called to its pastorate on 

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the 29th, and accepted the call the first Sunday 
of January, 18S6. The installation took place 
February 5th. 

There have gone forth from this church into 
the ministry, Rev. W. A. Westcott, M.D., Rev. 
F. A. Crane, Ph. D., Rev. T. Scott Bradner, Rev. 
W. S. Brown, Rev. A. R. Merriam, Rev. John I. 
Thompson, Rev. Charles Brewster. Dr. Bethune 
McCartee became a missionary to China, and 
two of its members are now in course at the 
seminary. 

The time agone has been fertile and progres- 
sive. This church has kept pace with its envi- 
ronment. Originally it was the place " to which 
the tribes went up." It has never lost its com- 
manding position. Along the shifting and sift- 
ing years it has remained steady, coherent, and 
strong. The immutable character of its Head 
hath been imparted to this body. The name of 
this church has given strength and help to many 
generations. This entire section has been illu- 
minated by its reflected light. Noble ancestors 
have prayed and wrought in its service, and 
their descendants now preserve the fidelity of the 
saints in the quickened activities and enlarged 
opportunities of this closing century. The grati- 
tude and praise of a vast company are uplifted to 
the Lord, and the people rejoice that the lines 

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have fallen to them in such pleasant places. May 
peace be within thy walls, O Goshen, and pros- 
perity within thy palaces forever! 

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 

The Records of the Church and Congregation. 

Harlow's History of the Presbytery of Hudson. 

Colonial History of New York. 

Documentary History of New York. 

Eager's History of Orange County. 

Rutenber's History of Orange County. 

McDonald's History of the Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, L. I. 

Wilson's Presbyterian Historical Almanac, Vol. VIII., 1866. 

Records of Deeds in County Clerk's Office. 

Files of Goshen Newspapers. 

Memorial of the Present Church and Dedication, 1874. 

Scrapbooks, private letters, family memorabilia. 



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APPOINTMENTS. 

Sunday. — Church Service at 1 1 a. m. and 7.30 p. M. 

Sunday School at 9.45 a. m. 

Junior Endeavor Society at 3 p. m. 

Y. P. S. C. E. at 6.45 p. m. 
Tuesday. — Church Prayer Meeting at 7.30 p. m. 
Wednesday. — Boys' Brigade, 7 to 8 p. m. 

Men's League. — The first Sunday night of each month at 
close of service. 

Woman's Missionary Society. — Third Wednesday after- 
noon of each month. 

Ladies' Home Mission Society. — First Thursday afternoon 
of each month. 

Young Ladies' Mission Society. — Second Monday after- 
noon of each month. 

Men's Missionary Society. — Third Wednesday evening of 
each month. 

Y. P. S. C. E. — Business meeting at close of prayer meet- 
ing first Tuesday evening of each month. 

Communion. — First Sunday morning of February, May, 
August, and November. 

Preparatory Service. — Saturday afternoon preceding each 
Communion at 2 o'clock, in the Church. 

The Session meets regularly Thursday and Saturday after- 
noons of the week just preceding each Communion. 

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Moderator. 



€lUrrd. 

John Valentine Clerk. 

Daniel Carpenter, H. H. Robinson, M.D., 

C. G. Elliott, T. D. Schoonmakik, 

E. A. Hopkins, H. D. Thompson, 

N. J. Kelsey, John Wallace. 

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

B. F. Edsall President. 

C. E. Millspaugh Secretary. 

B. F. Edsall Oct. 15, 1895. 

C. E. Millspaugh 

H. B. Knight 

J. W. Corwin " 1896. 

N. J. Kelsey 

Nathaniel Tuthill 

J. W. Gott " 1897. 

Dudley Murray 

R. H. Wood 

C. E. Millspaugh, Treasurer and Clerk of the Congregation. 

The Treasurer superintends the renting of pews and sittings, 
payment for which is expected quarterly in advance. 

The Congregation meets annually on October Sth at 2 p. m. to 
elect Trustees. 

The annual business meeting of the Congregation occurs Octo- 
ber 15th at 2 p. m. 

ftHsbcxB. 
J. L. Cummins, C. W. Tuthill, Ira M. Hawkins. 

Charles Bertholf Sexton. 

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*&\)t SmnBap Scfjool 

C. E. MlLLSPAUGH Superintendent. 

J. T. Tracy Assistant. 

Ida M. Rose Secretai r. 

C. G. Elliott Treasurer. 

Wm. B. Sayer Librarian. 

R. C. Coleman, Jr " 

(ZCjjr Cbtrir. 
Wm. Wall Whiddit, Jr. . . . Organist and Director. 
Volunteer Chorus. 

CI)e Sacraments. 

The entire morning service upon the first Lord's Day of 
February, May, August, and November, is set apart to the 
administration of the Lord's Supper. 

Baptism will be administered to children any Sunday morn- 
ing by appointment, and at any Preparatory service ; or on the 
morning of " Children's Day," the second Sunday of June, 
when it is particularly recommended. 

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SOCIETIES OF THE CHURCH AND 
CONGREGATION. 

SSHoman'fi JfltBfiionaip Sottctp. 

Mrs. Alfred Neafie President. 

Mrs. R. B. Clark Vice-President. 

Mrs. N. J. Kelsey Secretary. 

Mrs. J. H. Thompson Treasurer. 

$3ottng; ILalitrs' jfltcffitonarp Sorictp. 

Alma E. Merriam President. 

Mrs. Thomas Mould Vice-President. 

Maggie M. Kniffin Secretary. 

Carrie S. Ray Treasurer. 

LaBtfC' Vetoing; Siocirtp for foomr fHiseiane. 

Mary E. Grier President. 

Mrs. R C. Coleman Vice-President. 

Anna A. Farrand Secretary. 

Mrs. James M. Haggerty Treasurer. 

Jfltn'e jRtsdtonarp §ocittp. 

Rev. R. B. Clark President. 

J. T. Tracy Vice-President. 

Rev. F. A. Crane Secretary. 

Thomas Mould Treasurer. 

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LaUics' Mortal 3iU Sorirtp. 

Mrs. J. H. Thompson President. 

Mrs. M. B. W. Saver Vice-President. 

Mrs. D. T. Condict Secretary. 

Mrs. H. B. Knight Treasurer. 



|)oungr $coplc'a Sorictp of Cbrfctian (Entocabor. 

E. G. Swezey President. 

E. A. Hopkins Vice-President. 

M. Adele Schoonmakef ... Corresponding Secretary. 
Anna A. Farrano Treasurer and Secretary. 



junior S>ocictp of Cbriortan (EnSrabor. 

Mrs. Thomas Mould Superintendent. 

W. W. Whiddit, Jr Vice-Superintendent. 

Clarence E. Clark President. 

Carrie A. Mills Treasurer. 

Nokle A. Durland Secretary. 



2T|)c ffltn'6 League. 

A. V. D. Wallace President. 

J. H. Thompson, M.D Vice-President. 

Thomas Mould Secretary and Treasurer. 

And the following standing committees : Music, Member- 
ship, Invitation and Welcome, Ushers, Printing, Decoration, 
Boys' Brigade. 

2Tbc 3Sops' 36rtg>aor. 

E. N. K. Talcott Captain. 

Rev. R. B. Clark President. 

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Cljc King's Daughters. 

Alma E. Merriam President. 

Mrs. L. W. Hulse Secretary and Treasurer. 

This Society, in a quiet but effective way, has ministered to 
the sick, fed the hungry, and clothed the poor. 



STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH FOR THE YEAR 
ENDING MARCH 31, 1895. 

NEW MEMBERS. 

By Confession 23 

By Letter 19 

Total 42 

BAPTISMS. 

Children 5 

Adults 10 



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TOTAL BENEVOLENCES. 

Home Missions $1181.73 

Foreign Missions 37S.22 

Education 29.00 

Sunday School Work 25.76 

Church Erection 51.12 

Ministerial Relief 36.50 

Freedmen 29.00 

Colleges and Academies 23.00 

Synodical Aid 22.29 

Poor of the Church 186.22 

Bible Society 130.00 

$2092.84 

Congregational $6420.00 

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AGGREGATE STATISTICS FOR THE NINE YEARS 
OF THE PRESENT PASTORATE TO JANUARY 
i, 1885. 

NEW MEMBERS. 

By Confession 171 

By Letter 123 

Total 294 

BAPTISMS. 

Children 82 

Adults 50 

Total 132 

Benevolences $19,500 

Congregational $78,000 



BENEVOLENCES 


OF 


THE 


CHURCH. 


The aggregate for each year from 1886 


is as 


follows : — 


1886 . 


$621.74 




1891 




$2,264.00 


1887 . 


1.543-62 




1892 




2,21 2.00 


1888 . 


2,416.00 




1893 




2,266.00 


1889 . 


1,924.00 




1894 




3,074.00 


1890 . 


2,560.00 




1895 


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2,093.00 



Total for last ten years 



$20,974.36 



The benevolent reports are made to the Presbytery every 
spring for the year ending the 31st of March. 

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THE CHURCH EDIFICE. 

During the pastorate of the Rev. John Bradner, and some- 
time in the third decade of the eighteenth century, the first 
building used by this congregation as a place of worship was 
erected. It was a wooden structure of plain design and con- 
struction, and was not entirely completed for several years. 
The plan of the interior, with the names of the regular occu- 
pants in the latter part of that century, is given in this book. 
In the early part of the present century plans for a new build- 
ing were projected, and a large frame edifice was completed 
in 1813, and dedicated during the beginning of the ministry 
of the Rev. Ezra Fisk, D.D. The cost of this was $14,500, 
and it was considered a majestic and pretentious structure. 
It still stands in this village, a monument of former glory and 
a garner of hallowed memories, although the sound of the 
hammer is heard in its precincts instead of the voice of praise. 
When approaching the year 1870, the opinion of the people 
ripened for a new church building. This, the third in suc- 
cession, was finished and dedicated in 1871. In its massive- 
ness and capacity it promises to be adequate to the needs of 
the congregation for generations to come. The history of its 
inception and completion is interesting. The Trustees re- 
solved, July 21, 1866, to build a new church edifice. W. A. 
Wilkinson took the contract for #82,500. Ground was broken 
Sept. 7, 1868. The corner-stone was laid, with impressive 
ceremonies, May 11, 1869, at 3 p. m. In July of the same 

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year, the contractor abandoned the work, having expended 
$17,500. August n, P. H. Terhune, of Binghampton, under- 
took the completion of the building, according to the original 
plans, for $88,000. Changes and improvements, however, in- 
creased the cost greatly. The dedication occurred Nov. 22, 
1 87 1, at 11 a.m. The spire was condemned as unsafe, and 
taken down, at an expense of $1,284.15, in 1878, and rebuilt 
in 1881, for $11,257.24. The church building occupies a 
position towards the narrowest angle of a spacious triangular 
park in the centre of the village, and faces the northwest. It 
is built of blue limestone, quarried from the farm of the county, 
some four miles from the village. The walls are laid in 
courses, rock-faced, and the trimmings and copings are of 
dressed Syracuse stone. It is solid masonry from the founda- 
tion to the topmost cruciform stone of the spire. The Chapel 
is placed at a right-angle to the front of the Church, and 
divided from it by a campanile tower, 70 ft. high. The 
dimensions are : depth, 105 ft.; width, 62 ft.; height of main 
gable, 63 ft. ; Chapel, 46 X 30 ft. ; and gable, 34 ft. Extreme 
frontage, 114 ft.; height of spire, 186 ft. The estimated 
weight of the building is 10,000 tons, and it rests on bed- 
rock. The town clock in the spire is 130 ft. from the ground. 
The bell weighs 4,000 lbs., and swings at a height of 1 20 ft. 
The seating capacity of the Church is 1,200. In 1891 the 
interior was entirely refitted : the walls and ceiling were dec- 
orated by J. and R. Lamb ; new chandeliers and fixtures, 
new carpets and cushions were provided, the platform and 
pulpit were entirely altered and refurnished, a friction machine 
for lighting the gas was introduced, and the buildings were 
wired for electric lights. In 1893 the organ received its first 
overhauling, and was thoroughly repaired. A new solo organ 
was added, with a third key manual, and the modern combi- 
nations and appliances. A Ross valve water-motor was pro- 
vided to supersede the obsolete hand-power. 

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The money expended on the present Church building and 
its furnishings to date is as follows : — 

Original cost of Church and Chapel and grading 

grounds #128,514.03 

Heating, lighting, and furnishings 8,182.10 

Organ 5,096.00 

Taking down the spire 1,284.15 

Rebuilding the spire 11,257.24 

Repairs of 1S91, with new furnishings 4,048.00 

Memorial tablet and baptismal font 325.00 

Additions to the organ in 1893 1,332.00 

Chapel furniture, pulpit Bibles, stepping-block . . . 372.00 

Total $ 160,410.52 



SCHEME OF THE CHURCH ORGAN, BUILT 1872. 
Solo Organ, CC to A, 58 notes. 

Feet. Pipes. 

Geigon Principal . . 8 58 

Dulciana 8 58 

Doppel Flute ... 8 58 

Clarinet (reed) ... 8 46 

Octave 4 58 



Swell Organ. 



5 registers, 278 pipes. 



Bourdon . 
Open Diapason . 
Keraulophon . 
Dulciana . 
Stopped Diapason 
Vox Humana 
Oboe .... 
Violin .... 
Flute D'Amour 
Piccolo 
Cornet, 2 ranks . 



Feet. 

16 



Pipes. 

58 
58 
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58 
58 
58 
58 
58 
58 
58 
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11 registers, 696 pipes. 
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Great Organ. 








Feet. 


Pipes. 




Open Diapason . . 


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Open Diapason . 




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3 registers, 81 



pipes. 



Mechanical Registers. 

Solo Tremulant. 
Swell Tremulant. 
Pedale to Great Coupler. 
Pedale to Swell Coupler. 
Great to Swell Coupler. 
Swell to Solo Coupler. 



pipes. 

31 registers, 1867 pipes. 
6 mechanical. 

37 registers. 

Combination Pedals. 

Full Great Organ. 
Solo Great Organ. 
Full Swell Organ. 
Balanced Swell Pedal. 
Bellows worked by a Ross 
Valve Water Motor. 



Original cost of organ, $5,096 ($1,500 being allowed for old 
organ). The solo organ, combination pedals, two mechanical 
stops, and the motor were added in the summer of 1893 at 
a cost of $1,332, making the total cost of organ and motor. 
$6,428. 

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THE PARSONAGE. 

On July 7, 1886, the Congregation voted to build a new 
home for its Pastor, which immediately was begun upon a 
generous plan, and was completed in March, 18S7, at the fol- 
lowing cost : — 

Contract price $5,600.00 

Fixtures and barn 1,296.70 

Service-pipe and meter 34.10 

Grading and flagging 620.31 

$7,551 11 
Paid on Parsonage : — 

By sale of land for new street $1,000.00 

Sale of building lot on new street . . . 1,875.00 

From sale of old Parsonage 160.00 

From general fund 16. n 

By money borrowed on notes of the Trustees 4,500.00 

#7,551-1' 
By legacy of Mrs. Mary Houston . . . $500.00 
Balance of Parsonage account unpaid . . 4,000.00 

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STATEMENT OF THE CHURCH DEBT. 

The Ladies' Church Society, of which Miss Mary E. Grier 
was the efficient Treasurer, began raising funds to liquidate 
the debt June 22, 1877. At a Congregational meeting, held 
Oct. 19, 1879, it was agreed to be most desirable that the debt 
should be paid in full at an early date. A mutual covenant 
between the members and the Corporation was assumed, to 
wit : •' That said debt shall be divided into one thousand 
shares of ten cents a week for a period of three years, payable 
at least once every four weeks, to begin only when the whole 
number of shares shall have been subscribed." 

After a fair start on the plan, it appeared to be the wish of 
the people, first to rebuild the Church spire, which had been 
taken down because of faulty construction. The plan was 
held in abeyance while the spire was rebuilt. In 1884 the 
foregoing agreement, with slight modification, was resumed, 
and pursued unto the entire extinction of the debt. The 
figures are appended : — 

Balance from Church furnishing fund . . $ 14-35 

Subscription in shares 10,865.96 

Church collections 2,992.32 

Festivals 945 79 

Interest 924.99 

Sociables 851.50 

Tableaux and concerts 535- 2 7 

Donations 195.00 

Personally solicited 7348 

Total received for the Church debt . . $17,398.66 

The above amount paid the entire incumbrance on the 
Church edifice ; and it was announced from the pulpit by the 
Pastor Sunday morning, Sept. 20, 189 1, that the House of 
Worship was wholly free from debt. 

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INCOME OF THE CHURCH. 

From the beginning of the pastorate of the Rev. Nathan 
Ker, in the year 1766, to Oct. 15, 1S94, — the aggregate for 
each pastoral period being given ; each year for the present 
pastorate : — 

1 776-1804. Salary, 100 pounds, Rev. Nathan 
Ker, Pastor. Income during pastorate 
($2.50 to the £) $17,100.00 

1805-1812; Salary, $500. Rev. Isaac Lewis. 
Income, including collection for new 
Church 18,400.00 

1813-1833. Salary, $700. Rev. Ezra Fisk, D.D. 

Income, including funds for new Church 26,563.00 

1834. Income for the year 979-8i 

1 835-1 839. Salary, $700. Rev. James R. John- 
ston. Income for the period .... 4,617.72 

1 840-1 849. Salary, $900. Rev. Robert McCartee, 

D.D. Income for the period . . . . 9,946.25 

1S50-1885. Rev. W. D. Snodgrass, D.D. Aggre- 
gate for the entire period, including sub- 
scriptions for new Church, payment to 
the Church debt, rebuilding the Church 
spire, land sold, Church bell, furnishings 
for Church, organ, the Shorter judg- 
ment, old Church building and ma- 
terials sold, Sunday-school support, etc. 238,598.89 

56 




IN LOVING MEMORY OF 

ALEXANDER WRIGHT. 

1813 >J« 1891. 



1 886. Including sale of land from Parsonage plot, 

old Parsonage building, private subscrip- 
tion, and contribution to the Church 

debt $11,769.79 

1887. Total from all sources 8,357.72 

1888. „ „ 7,447-46 

1889. „ „ 6,971.34 

189°- » » 6,050.14 

1 89 1 . Including balance due on rebuilding Church 

spire, re-decorating and refurnishing the 

Church 11,445.53 

1892. Total from all sources 5,57 I -SS 

1893. Including the enlargement and repair of 

the Church organ and water-motor . . 7, 413.55 

1894. Including care of Church park .... 6,198.41 

Aggregate Congregational income for 128 years $3 8 7,431.1 6 

During the last twenty years the Sunday-school, beside rais- 
ing a considerable amount for benevolence, has given $2,148.07 
for its own support, which is included above. 

Of the foregoing amount the Ladies' Social Aid Society ac- 
cumulated, from 1888 to 1894, $4,117.18. 

57 



CLERKS OF THE SESSION AND NAMES 
OF ELDERS. 



Previous to 1827, the records of the Session are not signed 
by any one as Clerk, and the supposition is that the Pastor 
acted as Clerk. 

dlerfta. 

Timothy B. Crowell, elected 1827, served one year. 
Thomas VV. Bradner, elected 1828, served six years. 
Hannibal M. Hopkins, elected 1834, served thirty-five years. 
John Valentine, elected 1S69, the present Clerk. 



Names. 










Elected. 


End of 
Service. 


Cause. 


Samuel Carpenter " 


GJ u 0> 


' W99 


Death 


William Bodle 


ti'B rt 


1837 


? 


Reuben Hopkins 


.me. 
st i 
thai 


181 7 


Removal 


Jonathan Sweezy 




1812 


? 


John Smith 


"* w O rt 

.e w u — 


1800 


Death 


Peter Gale 


Hf JiS 


^iSoi 


? 


Benjamin Gale 1803 


1812 


? 


Asa Steward . . . 








1803 


1817 


Removal 


Daniel Bailey . . 








1803 


1841 


Death 


David R. Arnell . 








. 1813 


1826 


Death 


Ananias Valentine . 








. I8l8 


1825 


Death 


Benjamin Strong . 








l8l8 


1826 


Death 


William Phillips . 








1818 


1839 


Removal 


Timothy B. Crowell 








1822 


1828 


Removal 


Thomas W. Bradnei 


5 








1822 


1844 


? 



58 



Names. Elected. 

James W. Wilkin 1826 

George Phillips 1826 

Luther Harris 1830 

Hannibal M. Hopkins . . . 1830 

Daniel Wells 1830 

Abraham Purdy 1 83 7 

Benjamin C. Smith 1837 

James G. Thompson . . . .1837 

Nathaniel Webb 1837 

John Wilson 1853 

Gabriel P. Reeve, M.D . . .1853 

Adam G. Crans 1853 

Samuel J. Wilkin 1858 

John S. Crane, M.D 1858 

John Valentine 1858 

Adam H. Sinsabaugh .... 1869 

Daniel Carpenter 1869 

George H. Crans 1875 

Charles G. Elliott . . . . 1S75 

James Gabbey 1875 

H. H. Robinson, M.D. . . . 1875 

Nathaniel J. Kelsey .... 1884 

Theodore D. Schoonmaker . . 1884 

Horace D. Thompson . . . . 1884 

John Wallace 1891 

Edward A. Hopkins . . . .1891 



End of 




Service. 


Cause. 


1845 


Death 


1839 


Removal 


1858 


Death 


1872 


Death 


1836 


Removal 


1853 


Death 


1864 


Death 


1865 


Removal 


185s 


Death 


1S57 


? 


1858 


Removal 


1890 


Death 


1866 


Death 


1875 


Death 



1882 



1885 



Death 
Death 
Death 



59 



CLERKS AND TREASURERS OF THE 
CONGREGATION. 

No records of the Congregation prior to 1772 now exist for 
these data. 

(Nerfas. 

Benjamin Tusten 177 2-1777 

Samuel Carpenter 1777-1783 

J.L.Moffat 1 783-1 787 

Joshua Brown 17S7-17S8 

Samuel Moffat 1788-1806 

James W. Wilkin 1806-1822 

John B. Boothe 1822-1827 

John Wilson 182 7-1 843 

George M. Grier 1843-1878 

J. W. CORVVIN 1878-1879 

John Wallace 1879-1880 

C. E. Millspaugh 1880- 

CErcasurcrs. 

Daniel Everett 1 772-1 777 

Benjamin Gale 1777-17S6 

Calvin Gale, Executor .... 1 786-1 787 

Reuben Hopkins 1787-1792 

David M. Westcott 1792-1795 

James Carpenter 1795-1817 

James W. Wilkin 181 7-1838 

John S. Crane, M.D 1838-1850 

John C. Wallace 1 850-1 860 

Henry Merriam 1860-1871 

David Redfield 1871-1885 

J. M. H. Coleman 1885-1887 

C E. Millspaugh 1887- 

60 



TRUSTEES OF THE CONGREGATION. 



Name. 






Elected. 


Retired 






Henry Wisner . . . . ? 


1787 


1789-1790 


(died) 


Moses Phillips . 






? 


1787 






Joseph Wood . . . 






? 


1788 


1791-1819 




Dr. Sweezy . . 






? 


1788 






Reuben Hopkins . 






? 


1787 


1787-1791 




Samuel Moffat . 






? 


1788 


1 788-1806 




Peter Gale . . 






? 


1789 






James Carpenter 






? 


1789 






Benjamin Jackson . 






? 


1789 






William Bodle . , 






1787 


1801 






Joshua Brown 






1787 


1797 






Wm. Thompson . . 






1788 


1791 






Colvill Bradner 






1788 


1791 






Benj. Tusten . . 






1789 


1791 






Dr. John Gale . 






1789 


1792 






David M. Westcott 






1790 


1799 


1805-1820 




Benj. Conkling . 






1791 


1799 






John Steward 






1791 


1808 






Thos. Borland . 






1792 


1799 


1801-1810 




Jas. M. Wilkin . 






• I79 2 


1821 


1822-1825 




Jonathan Sayer . 






• 1797 


1801 






Solomon Smith . 






• 1799 


1802 






Joseph Denton . 






1799 


1805 






Nathaniel Conklinc 






. 180O 


1806 






David Case . . 






. l8oi 


1822 






Benj. Gale . . 






. 1802 


1811 






Joshua Conkling 






. 1806 


1821 


1822-1825 
61 





Name. 


Elected. Retired. 




Benj. Strong . . . . 


. l806 I 


821 


1S23-1S29 


George Phelps . . . 


. l8lO I 


822 




Daniel Carpenter . . 


. l8ll I 


823 




Wm. Phillips . . . . 


. 1813 I 


835 




Wm. Horton . . . . 


. 1819 I 


S22 




Stephen Jackson . . 


. l820 I 


825 




Jas. Strong . . . . 


. I82I I 


830 




John B. Booth . . . 


. I82I 1 


827 


1846-1851 


Thos. W. Bradner . . 


. l82I ] 


827 


1828-1837 


Joseph Wood . . . 


. l822 ] 


825 




Timothy B. Crowell 


. IS2 S 1 


828 




John Wilson . . . . 


• 1825 I 


843 




James Gale . . . 


• 1325 1 


828 




Egbert Jansen . . 


. 1825 I 


835 




Walter B. Strong . 


. 1827 ] 


833 


1842-1845 


Henry Seward . . 


. 1827 ] 


834 




J. C. Reeve . . . 


. 1828 


849 




John S. Crane, M.D. 


. 1S29 


850 




Usher H. Case . . 


. 183O 


833 




Daniel Case . . . 


• 1833 


[842 




S. J. Wilkin . 


■ • 1833 


1S36 


1842-1851 


G. W. Howell . . 


• 1834 


842 




Phineas Rumsey . . 


• l83S 


'S44 




Hezekiah H. Strong 


• 1835 


1844 




Abram Purdy . . . 


• 1836 


842 




Jerome Wells, M.D. 


• 1837 


[840 




Stephen Smith . . 


. 184O 


[882 




Jerome Johnson . . 


. . 1842 


1846 




Geo. M. Grier . . 


■ • 1843 


1S79 




Wm. Jackson . . . 


. . 1844 


1850 




Jas. S. Horton . . 


• 1844 


1849 




Jas. S. Tuthill . . 


• • 1845 


185 1 




G. H. Crans . . . 


. . 1849 


1873 




Josephus Terbell . 


. . 1849 


1850 




John J. Heard . . 


. . 185O 


1867 




A. H. Sinsabaugh 


. . 185O 


1880 




Aaron Van Duzer . 


. . iS S o 


1867 





Name. 


Elected. 


Retired. 




Stephen H. Strong . 


• 1851 


!853 




Benj. B. Strong 


• 1851 


1866 




Geo. M. Sayer . . 


. 1851 


1878 




J. C. Wallace . . . 


• 1853 


1878 




J. S. Hopkins . . . 


. 1866 


1878 




Alfred Wells . . 


. 1867 


1874 




John Wallace . . . 


. 1867 


1883 




John E. Howell 


• 1873 


1876 




Garret Thew . . 


• 1874 


1880 




Bradner Coleman . 


. 1876 


1879 




J. W. Cor win . . 


. . 1878 






N. J. Kelsey . . . 


. 1878 






Nathaniel Tuthill . 


. 1878 






B. R. Champion . . 


• 1879 


1893 


(died) 


Roswell C. Coleman 


• 1879 


1891 




N. C. Sanford . . 


. 1880 


1885 


(died) 


C. E. Millspaugh . 


. 1880 






Horace D. Thompson 


. 1882 


1888 




B. F. Edsall . . . 


. . 1883 






N. H. Sanford . . 


• 1885 


1892 




(Son of N. C.) 








J. W. GOTT . . . 


. . 1888 






Dudley Murray . . 


. . 1891 






H. B. Knight . . 


. . 1892 






T. D. SCHOONMAKER . 


. • 1893 


1894 




R. H. Wood . . . 


. . 1894 







63 







w 
o 



MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH 

April i, 1895. 



C. : Received by Confession. — L. : By Letter. — Figures denote when 

received. 



c. 


[892 


c. 


[884 


L. 


[892 


C. 


[887 


L. 


[887 


L. 


[887 


C. 


[887 


L. 


[888 


C. i 


873 


C. ] 


863 


C. i 


886 


C. i 


889 


C. i 


866 


C. i 


89 1 


L. i 


890 


L. i 


893 


C. i 


891 


C. ] 


831 


C. ] 


894 


L. 


[886 


C. i 


863 


C. i 


861 



Altman, Mrs. Katharine. 
Anderson, Mrs. Mattie J. 
Andrews, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth. 
Ashcraft, Fannie Irene. 
Ashcraft, Mrs. Flora Anna. 1 
Ashcraft, Hugh Edgar. j 
Ashcraft, Laura Virginia. 

Baker, Jacob C. 

Banker, Daniel D. 1 

Banker, Mrs. Hannah L. j 

Banker, Mary Louisa (D.D.). 

Bates, Ann Olivia. 

Bennett, Mrs. Catharine Amelia. 

Bennett, Gabriel Hiram (W. H.L 

Bennett, Ida. 

Bennett, Mrs. Nellie Irene (wife G. H.). 

Bennett, Wm. Henry. 

Beyea, Mrs. Mary Jones. 

Blake, Anna Eliza. 

Bodine, Susan Leeds. 

Bradner, Mrs. Eliza. 

Bradner, Lois. 

64 



[874- Bradner, Mary C. 

[891. Brown, Mrs. Harriet E. 

1889. Brown, Jennie. 

1893. Brown, Thos. Jefferson. 

[890. Brundage, Mrs. Agnes. 

[892. Brundage, Jennie Agnes (Mrs. A.) 

1873. Budd, Daniel C. ) 

1884. Budd, Mrs. Fanny Elizabeth. > 

t88o. Budd, Mrs. Josephine LeMonte (Dr. R.). 

[888. Bull, Mrs. Mary Jane. 



S7. Cable, Mary Ann. 

1867. Carpenter, Daniel. 

[S94. Carpenter, John Henry (Daniel). 

[866. Carpenter, Mrs. Mary (wife Daniel). 

[892. Carpenter, Mary Agnes (Daniel). 

[845. Case, Margaret E. 

[873. Case, Sarah Elizabeth. 

[886. Cassady, Alie Weymer, M.D. 

890. Cassady, Mrs. Flora Agnes. ) 

[884. Cassady, John B., M.D. ) 

57. Cassady, Sarah Jay. 

[862. Champion, Mrs. Martha E. 

!8. Champion, Mary (Mrs. M. E.). ) 

18. Champion, Parry. ' 

[894. Chardevoyne, Mrs. Frances Ella. 

[886. Clark, Mrs. Adelaide Roome (wife Rev. R. B. C.) . 

[889. Clark, Amos Ryerson. 

[842. Clark, Bernard M. 

[886. Clark, Mrs. Susan Alice. 

[848. Cocks, Bridget W. 

[895. Coleman, Alex. Westcott (son R. C). 

[870. Coleman, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth (wife J. C). 

[881. Coleman, Anna M. (R. C). 

[868. Coleman, Chas. W. 

[890. Coleman, Eleanor Carpenter (R. C.)- 

[880. Coleman, Harriet Minerva. 

65 



1894- Coleman, Henrietta (R. C). 

1866. Coleman, Jas. C, M.D. 

[886, Coleman, Jas. Carpenter, Jr. 

[891. Coleman, Jos. Gilbert (J. C). 

!8. Coleman, Louise Hoyt (C. W.). 

[865. Coleman, Mrs. Mary H. 

1878. Coleman, Mrs. Mary Louisa. 

[881. Coleman, Mrs. Mary Louise (wife C. W.). 

1864. Coleman, Mrs. Phebe Ann. 

1865. Coleman, Roswell C. 

[860. Coleman, Mrs. Sarah Wilkin (wife R. C). 

Si. Coleman, Sarah W. (R. C). 

[888. Coleman, Mrs. Susan J. 

1885. Coleman, Wilkin (R. C). 

[880. Colwell, Mrs. Katharine Duer. 

893. Condict, Daniel Trimble, M.D. ) 

[893. Condict, Mrs. Matilda. ) 

[872. Condon, Mrs. Annie J. 

1 89 1. Conklin, Laura Hulse. 

[850. Corwin, Jason Wells. ) 

[856. Corwin, Mrs. Sarah. ) 

[889. Cox, Mrs. Ida K. 

1842. Crane, Frances Elvino. 

[850. Crane, Mrs. Melissa A. 

[842. Crans, Mrs. Cynthia. 

[869. Crans, Harrietta L. 

[894. Crist, Anna Belle. 

[893. Crist, Marianna. 

[878. Cromwell, Mrs. Mary Sayer. 

[874. Cummins, John L. ) 

1889. Cummins, Mrs. Susie Ogden. ) 



[894. DeGarmo, Mrs. Mary G. 

[868. Dekay, Mrs. Sarah A. 

[888. Deyo, Mrs. Jemima. 

[889. Dikeman, Mrs. Susan Elizabeth. 

[889. Dougherty, Sarah Augusta. 

66 



1 84 1. Drake, Lavinia Elizabeth. 

1862. Dunning, Agnes. 

1892. Dunning, Alexander (T. R.). 

1 89 2. Dunning, Mrs. Charlotte E. ) 

1892. Dunning, Theo. Rensaler. ) 

1895. Durland, Mrs. Anna C. 

1892. Durland, Bradford Conkling (D. C). 

1892. Durland, Dewitt Clinton. 

1892. Durland, Nellie McCain (D. C). 

1892. Durland, Mrs. Theresa (wife D. C). 

1869. Duryea, Keziah. 

1874. Dusenberry, Mrs. Anna. 

1892. Dusenberry, Mrs. Annie Catherine. 

1888. Dusenberry, Chas. Howland (Mrs. Anna). 

1879. Dwenger, Mrs. Emma. 

1887. Earl, Mrs. Louisa. 

1895. Edsall, Burt. ) 

1895. Edsall, Mrs. Sadie. ] 

1 89 1. Edsall, Helen H. 

1892. Egbertson, Mrs. Mary A. 
1S73. Elliott, Catharine. 

1866. Elliott, Chas. G. ) 

1870. Elliott, Mrs. F. Lavinia. ) 
1879. Everett, Frank E. ) 
1879. Everett, Mrs. Mary T. ) 
1850. Everett, Sarah Elizabeth. 

1872. Farley, Jas. G. ) 

1887. Farley, Mrs. Sarah, i 

1S94. Farrand, Anna Amelia. 

1890. Fletcher, Harriet Madaline (Mrs. J. D.). 

1868. Fletcher, Mrs. Julia D. 

1886. Foster, Sadie Randolph. 
1 88 1. Freer, David. ) 

1 881. Freer, Mrs. Leah. ) 

1887. Fritz, Mrs. Gotlieb. 

67 



1876. Fuller, Chas. H. 

1876. Fuller, Mrs. Sarah A. 

[892. Gaines, Samuel Richards. 

[874. Gardner, Alex. J. ) 

18. Gardner, Mrs. Mary Wilkinson. ) 

[885. Gardner, Minnie (Mrs. P. E.). 

[885. Gardner, Mrs. Phebe E. 

[887. Giles, Mrs. Lucy. 

[881. Glover, Mrs. Irene Isabella. 

[847. Goldsmith, Elizabeth. 

1847. Goldsmith, Julia Ann. 

1883. Graham, Mrs. Hannah E. 

1873. Greene, Alice Elizabeth (Mrs. S. E.). 

[861. Greene, Mrs. Sarah E. 

[884. Grier, Fannie T. 

1871. Grier, Mary E. 

[879. Gurnee, Fannie Gertrude. 

[871. Haggerty, Mrs. Fannie L. 

1878. Hallock, Mrs. Mary E. 

[891. Halstead, Mrs. Emily Frances. 

[891. Halstead, Henrietta (Mrs. E. F.). 

[891. Halstead, Josephine (Mrs. E. F.). 

[879. Hankins, Mrs. Emma. 

[888. Hardenberg, Mrs. Rebecca. 

[866. Harris, Ellen M. 

1843. Harris, Mrs. jerusha. 

[890. Hawkins, Antoinette (Mrs. E. A.). 

[869. Hawkins, Emily Augusta (Mrs. F. J.). 

[890. Hawkins, Mrs. Emily Augusta. 

[843. Hawkins, Mrs. Frances Jane. 

[890. Hawkins, Geo. W. P. 

[890. Hawkins, Ira M. (Moses). 

[889. Hawkins, Mrs. Josephine (wife Moses). 

[894. Hawkins, Mrs. Kate D. 

[879. Hawkins, Mrs. Mary E. (Hiram). 

[889. Hawkins, Moses. 

68 



1884. Hawkins, Mrs. Susan E. (wife G. VV. P.). 
[871. Hayne, Mrs. Catharine H. 

[891. Hayne, Fred. Campbell. 

[870. Hayne, Jacob W. ) 

[870. Hayne, Mrs. Jennie W. i 

57. Hayne, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (wife F. C). 

[874. Heard, Fannie B. (J. J.). 

1850. Heard, John Jas. 

[894. Helms, Mrs. Hannah Mapes. 

[885. Helms, Mrs. Henrietta H. 

[893. Heynen, Wm. Burritt. 

>8. Hoffman, Wm. Seaton. 

1879. Holman, Mrs. Jennie L. 

Ii. Hopkins, Edward A. 

[869. Hopkins, Mrs. Susan B. 

[887. Horton, Chas. Wood. ) 

[870. Horton, Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth. J 

[888. Horton, Hannah Matilda. 

1885. Horton, Mrs. Sarah Jane. 

[893. Houston, Jas. Kimble (Mrs. S. W.). 

[878. Houston, Mrs. Sarah Wells. 

[886. Howell, Anna Brownell (W. S.). 

[869. Howell, Benton. 

[891. Howell, Bertha Tuthill (Mrs. M. K.). 

[890. Howell, Mrs. Caroline Jenette (Jas. A.). 

32. Howell, Flora. 

[870. Howell, Mrs. Jane R. 

1874. Howell, Mrs. Jennie B. (wife W. S.). 

[886. Howell, Jennie Mary. 

[890. Howell, Mrs. Jennie Moore (Mark A.). 

[850. Howell, John Edward. 

[874. Howell, Martha. 

[S79. Howell, Mrs. Mary Kate (S. J.). 

[869. Howell, Mary M. 

[891. Howell, Mrs. Verdie Mercy. 

[874. Howell, WalterS. 

[889. Hoyt, Ilia. 

69 



[S72. Hulse, Mrs. Frances C. 

[886. Hulse, Mrs. Janie Laura. ) 

[874. Hulse, Lewis VV. J 

[891. Hunt, Livingston Benj. (Mrs. S.J. ). 

[S94. Hunt, Mrs. Sarah Benj. 

^72. Hunter, Mrs. Caroline L. 



[894. Ivory, Geo. Milliken. ) 
1894. Ivory, Mrs. Sarah Edith. J 



[891. Jackson, Mrs. Florence Fletcher. 

[S63. Jackson, Mrs. Mary Ann. 

[891. Jessup, Clara Bliss (Mrs. Z. P.). 

[891. Jessup, Willard Parker (Mrs. Z. P.). 

[890. Jessup, Mrs. Zenobia P. 

[891. Johnson, Asher. 

1866. Johnson, Isabelle. 

[895. Johnson, John. 1 

[895. Johnson, Mrs. Mary. J 

572. Jones, Gabriel B. 1 

[870. Jones, Mrs. Mary J. j 

[893. Jones, Mary Libbie (G. B.). 

[874. Jones, Richard Denton. 



[8S7. Kelsey, Augusta Sayer. 

[868. Kelsey, Mrs. Caroline D. (wife N.J.). 

[893. Kelsey, Delia Post (N. J). 

[868. Kelsey, Nathaniel J. 

[881. Knapp, Chas. Albert. 

[881. Knapp, Mrs. Emma L. 

)o. Kniffin, Carrie Bennett (Mrs. S. J.). 

[880. Kniffin, Isabel (Mrs. M.). 

[880. Kniffin, Maggie M. (Mrs. M.) 

[875. Kniffin, Mrs. Margaret. 

[871. Kniffin, Mrs. Sarah Jane (S. Logan). 

57. Knight, Henry B. ) 

[879. Knight, Mrs. Mary, j 

70 



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[884. Kyte, Elizabeth Terry. 

)i. Kyte, Herbert Walter. 

[890. Lamoreaux, Geo. W. 

1850. Lander, Margaret. 

[873. Lewis, James. 

[888. Little, Emma J. 

[874. Lockvvood, Grace. 

[880. Lockvvood, Mrs. Grace Hamilton. " 

1880. Lockwood, William W. '. 

[884. LuGar, Mary Gertrude. 



! 



! 



[892. Macy, Mrs. Emily. 

[88 1. Mapes, Augustus Strong. 

[892. Marsh, Mrs. Anna Maria. 

[892. Marsh, Chas. Wm. 

[866. Mattison, Mrs. Laura H. 

[873. McBride, Mrs. Isabella. 

[886. McCoy, Mrs. Alice Linden. 

[895. McGeoch, Ralph L., M.D. 

[893. Mcllvain, Lydia. 

[891. McKinley, Jennie. 

[862. Mead, Mrs. Susan Emily. 

[874. Mead, William B. 

[865. Merriam, Alma E. (Mrs. A. E.). 

[845. Merriam, Mrs. Anna Eliza. 

[862. Merriam, Helen (Mrs. A. E.). 

[879. Meyers, Mrs. Ella. 

!i. Mills, Mrs. Abby (wife I. B.). 

[893. Mills, Carrie Augusta (G. H.). 

[878. Mills, George H. 

[S90. Mills, Harrison Duryea (G. H.). 

[889. Mills, Irvin Baker. 

[878. Mills, Mrs. M. Augusta (wife G. H.). 

[885. Millspaugh, Mrs. Amelia (wife Chauncey). 

[862. Millspaugh, Charles E. 

[886. Millspaugh, Chauncey. 

71 



866. Millspaugh, Frank Walling (Chauncey). 

886. Millspaugh, Geo. Henry (Chauncey). 
862. Millspaugh, Mrs. Martha J. (wife C. E.). 

890. Millspaugh, Mary Dunning (C. E.). 

887. Moffatt, Ruth. 

894. Monnell, Mary Elizabeth. 

891. Montanye, Ethel Vail. 

891. Montanye, Mrs. Ida Mackay. 

894. Moore, Mrs. Angeline B. 
S67. Moore, Emma J. 

874. Moore, Mary F. 

895. Morris, Mrs. Hester A. 

889. Morris, Mrs. Luella Elizabeth (Mrs. H. A.). 

880. Mould, Mrs. Anna Frances (wife Thos.). 
886. Mould, Elizabeth (Mrs. M. C). 

886. Mould, Mrs. Mary Catharine. 

Mould, Thomas (Mrs. M. C). 

Murray, Dudley. 

862. Murray, Mrs. Sarah. 

879. Neafie, Mrs. Ann Preston. 

857. Newman, Harriet Caroline. 

841. Newman, Mrs. Mary. 

868. Newman, Mary Ella. 

889. Ogden, Chas. Benjamin. 

891. Ostrom, Anna Howell (Mrs. S. C). 

882. Ostrom, Mrs. Emma Gertrude (wife J. W.). 

895. Ostrom, Frank Ward (J. \V.). 

893. Ostrom, Jennie (Mrs. S. C). 

850. Ostrom, Joshua Ward, M.D. 

890. Ostrom, Mrs. Susan Caroline. 
879. Owen, Mrs. Catharine. 

895. Owen, Daniel Henry. 

885. Owen, Mrs. Emma J. Redfield (wife W. A.). 

895. Owen, Frank Bennett. 

881. Owen, Geo. Festus. 

72 



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C. i 


887. 


C. i 


886. 


C. i 


887. 


L. i 


883. 


L. i 


889. 


L. i 


893- 


L. i 


893- 


C. i 


880. 


L. i 


874. 


L. i 


874. 


L. i 


879. 


L. ] 


879. 


C. i 


891. 


L. i 


890. 


L. i 


890. 


C. i 


859- 


c- 


891. 


C. i 


892. 


L. i 


888. 


C. 


[886. 


C. 


[891. 


L. i 


889. 


C. 


[878. 


L. i 


871. 


C. 


[884. 


L. 


[871. 


C. 


[886. 


L. 


[859. 


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C. 


[889. 


C. 


1874. 



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Owen, Mrs. Jennie Agnes (wife F. B.). 
Owen, Mrs. Laura S. (wife D. H.). 
Owen, Mrs. Lucetta (wife G. F.). 
Owen, Wm. Augustus. 

Parker, Edwin Geo., D.D.S. 

Parker, Mary Josephine. 

Parker, Mrs. May Fellows (wife E. G.). 

Penny, Mrs. Josephine. 

Pettit, Mrs. Sarah. 

Phelps, George W. "» 

Phelps, Mrs. Helen A. j 

Poppino, Frances A. (\V. A.). 

Poppino, Mrs. Frances Emily, f 

Poppino, William A. 

Preston, Alvan B. 

Preston, Mrs. Calista Turner. 

Price, Edson Coleman (J. M.). 

Price, Jacob M. ~i 

Price, Mrs. Helen. } 

Price, Mrs. Phebe E. 

Purcell, Ida Agnes. 

Purcell, Lizzie Bell. 

Ray, Carrie Stella. 

Reed, Lucinda Adella. 

Reeve, Lucy Ann. 

Remer, Mrs. Ella C. 

Riggs, Elijah R. 

Robinson, Heman H., M.D. 

Robinson, Katherine M. (H. H.). 

Robinson, Mrs. Maria V. (wife H. H.). 

Robinson, Mary Verplanck (H. H.). 

Roe, Mrs. Emily Y. 

Rose, Ebenezer B. 

Rose, Ida May (E. B.). 

Roys, Edwin L. 

73 



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[867. 


C. 


[868. 


C. 


[874. 


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[869. 


C. 


[874. 


C. 


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C. 


[891. 


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c. 


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L. 


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886. 


L. 


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L. 


890. 


L. 


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L. 


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C. i 


866. 


C. 


[867. 


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C. i 


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L. 


[888. 


L. 


888. 


L. 


[892. 


C. i 


863. 


L. 


886. 



Roys, Mrs. Eliza. 
Roys, Lucilla J. (Mrs. E.). 
Roys, Mrs. Mary L. (wife E. L.). 
Rumsey, Mrs. Alice Conkling. 1 
Rumsey, Wra. Albert. j 

Rysdyk, William M. 

Samuels, Nettie Moore. 

Sanford, Nathan H. 

Sayer, Augusta (G. M.). 

Sayer, Emma (G. M.). 

Sayer, George M. 

Sayer, Mrs. Mary B. Wright. 

Sayer, Robt. Wright (Mrs. M. B. W.). 

Schoonmaker, Chas. Beattie (T. D.). 

Schoonmaker, Mrs. Hannah Matilda. 

Schoonmaker, Mrs. Julia Ann (wife T. D.). 

Schoonmaker, Mary Adele (T. D.). 

Schoonmaker, Theo. D. 

Scott, John B. 

Seely, Mrs. Anna (Henry). 

Seely, Mrs. Henrietta Harrington. 

Seely, Mrs. Laura Jane (Jas. A.). 

Seely, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Walter). 

Seward, Fredk. W., M.D. \ 

Seward, Mrs. Mattie C. i 

Simpson, Mrs. Grace Little. 

Sinsabaugh, Clara Edith (H.). 

Sinsabaugh, Mrs. Clara Evelyn (wife of H.). 

Sinsabaugh, Henry. 

Sinsabaugh, Kittie Eliza (H.). 

Sinsabaugh, Mary Evelyn (H.). 

Skinner, James Cyrus. ) 

Skinner, Mrs. Jane Ann. ) 

Smiley, Mrs. Jane Dunning. 

Smith, Mrs. Abby Ann. 

Smith, Mrs. Carrie Emma (Theo.). 

74 



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C. i 


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L. 


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L. 


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Smith, Mrs. Catharine Delia (wife H. E.). 

Smith, Chas. Wesley. 

Smith, Clara H. 

Smith, Egbert D. 

Smith, Mrs. Ellen. 

Smith, Ellen Delia. 

Smith, Mrs. Emma Jane (wife S. E.). 

Smith, Mrs. Emma Mills (Fred). 

Smith, Emmet Augustus (Mrs. H. A.). 

Smith, Mrs. Emily Randolph. 

Smith, Grant. 

Smith, Mrs. Harriet. 

Smith, Mrs. Harriet Amelia. 

Smith, Henry Edson. 

Smith, Hiram Horton (Mrs. A. A.). 

Smith, Ira Hawkins (Mrs. E. R.). 

Smith, Mrs. Mary R. (wife W. T.). 

Smith, Mrs. May Crist (wife E. A.). 

Smith, Mrs. Phebe Jane (wife C.W.). 

Smith, Mrs. Sallie Conger (wife H. H.). 

Smith, Sarah E. 

Smith, Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. E. R.). 

Smith, Sarah J. 

Smith, Stephen Edgar (Mrs. H. A.). 

Smith, Wickham Tuthill. 

Speir, Azelia May. 

Speir, Nathan C. 

Staats, Mrs. Elizabeth. 

Staats, John Henry. 

Staats, Mrs. Julia W. 

Stanger, Harriet. 

Straight, Mrs. Jessie Condict. 

Strong, Mrs. Helen. 

Strong, Maria L. 

Strong, Mary Frances. 

Strong, Mrs. Mary Jane (wife VV. H.). 

Strong, Sarah. 

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C. 1S80. Strong, Sarah Frances. 

C. 1 89 1. Strong, Thos. Bradner. 

C. 1880. Strong, Wm. Henry. 

C. 1890. Swart wout, Joshua. 

L. 1 89 1. Swartwout, Mrs. Martha 

C. 1850. Sweezey, Mary Frances. 

C. 1893. Swezey, Ed. Gray. 

C. 1874. Swezey, John B. 

C. 1891. Swezey, Mrs. Susie Carpenter (wife E. G.). 

L. 1893. Talcott, Ed. N. Kirk. 

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L. 1893. Talcott, Mrs. Lillian (wife E. N. K.). 

L. 1893. Talcott, Rebecca (E. N. K). 

L. 1889. Terwilliger, Cornelia. 

C. 18S5. Thompson, Mrs. Adeline L. (wife J. H.). 

C. 1893. Thompson, Chas. Hudson (H. D.). 

C. 1889. Thompson, Clara Belle. 

C. 1892. Thompson, Ed. Cameron (H. D.). 

C. 1 871. Thompson, Horace D. 

C. 1850. Thompson, John Hudson, M.D. 

Thompson, Mrs. J. L. 

L. 1887. Thompson, Mrs. Lydia Ann. 

C. 1889. Thompson, Mrs. Mary (Frank). 

L. 1856. Thompson, Mrs. Ophelia Millspaugh. 

L. 1886. Thompson, Mrs. Sarah Maria (wife H. D.). 

C. 1874. Thurston, Jas. O. 

C. 1885. Townsend, Chas. E., M.D. 

C. 1893. Tracy, Eleanor Frances (J. T.). 

L. 1885. Tracy, Jos. T., A.M. ) 

L. 1885. Tracy, Mrs. Lucy E. I 

C. 1874. Tuthill, Mrs. Addie V. 

C. 1 88 1. Tuthill, Anna Belle (Townsend). 

C. 1885. Tuthill, Annie Lincoln (C. B.). 

C. 1850. Tuthill, Chas. Bodle. 

C. 1887. Tuthill, Chas. Wm. 

C. 1892. Tuthill, Ed. Ely (Mrs. R. A.). 

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L. 


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[886. 


C. 


[886. 



Tuthill, Egbert J. (Jas. S.). 

Tuthill, Mrs. Elizabeth Brill (wife C. B.). 

Tuthill, Emma Willard. 

Tuthill, Frances Dean (Mrs. A.V.). 

Tuthill, Frank Doughty (C. B.). 

Tuthill, Geo. G. (C. B.). 

Tuthill, Mrs. Harriet (wife J. S.). 

Tuthill, Hattie (E. J.). 

Tuthill, Mrs. Huldah Elizabeth Thorn (Joseph). 

Tuthill, Jas. S. 

Tuthill, Louisa Caroline (Townsend). 

Tuthill, Mary Augusta (Townsend). 

Tuthill, Mary Youngs (C. B.). 

Tuthill, Nathaniel, Jr. 

Tuthill, Mrs. Rosilla A. 

Tuthill, Mrs. Sadie A. (wife G. G.). 

Tuthill, Mrs. Sarah Adriance (James). 

Tuthill, Mrs. Sophie (wife E. J.). 

Tuthill, Wm. Bodle (C. B.). 

Tuthill, Wm. Youngs. 

Vail, Mrs. Mary. 

Vail, Mary M. 

Valentine, Mrs. Eliza B. ) 

Valentine, John. i 

Van De Mark, Mrs. Mary Selleck. 

Van Duzer. Allouise. 

Van Duzer, Henry Tusten. 1 

Van Duzer, Mrs. Sarah. i 

Van Leuven, Emily Frances (Mrs. Mollie). 

Van Leuven, Mrs. Mary. 

Van Leuven, Mrs. Mollie. 

Van Steenbergh, Mrs. Georgiana. 

Varcoe, Edwin R., D.D.S. 

Wadsworth, Blanche A. 
Wadsworth, Gertrude. 

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L. i 


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C. i 


894. 


L. i 


894. 



Waite, Mrs. Emily S. 

Wall, Alonzo C. ) 

Wall, Mrs. Sarah M. i 

Wallace, Aaron Van Duzer. 

Wallace, Mrs. Caroline H. 

Wallace, Mrs. Hannah. 

Wallace, John. 

Wallace, Mrs. Katharine Cuddeback (wife A.V. D.). 

Wallace, Mrs. Mary T. (wife John). 

Walling, Mrs. Annie Seaman. 

Walling, Carrie Thompson. 

Wardrop, Fannie. 

Warner, Roxanna. 

Watkins, Mrs. Edna J. 

Watters, Mrs. Melinda. 

Weir, Jos. Roberts. 

Weir, Jos. Tuthill (J. R.). 

Weir, Mrs. Marianna (wife J. R.). 

Wells, Mrs. Alice J. Hadden. ) 

Wells, Chas. S. i 

Wells, Clara Lounsbury (C. S.). 

Wells, Elizabeth Eunice. 

Wells, Mrs. Frances E. (wife J. E.). 

Wells, Jas. Edward. 

Westcott, Mrs. Jane. 

Weymer, Mrs. Cornelia. 

Whiddin, Alvin Burk. ) 

Whiddin, Mrs. Anna. 3 

Whiddin, Clara Louise (A. B.). 

Whiddit, Win. Wall, Jr. 

White, Harry W. 

Whitney, Anna Adelia. 

Whitney, Christian Amanda. 

Wilcox, Mrs. Susan. 

Wolfe, Elizabeth. 

Wood, Abbie Augusta (Mrs. H.). 

Wood, Mrs. Hannah. 

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Wood, Lizzie (Mrs. H.). 
Wood, Mary Millicent. 
Wood, Mrs. Mima. \ 
Wood, Richard Henry. J 
Woodruff, Ella (Mrs. F. C). 
Woodruff, Mrs. Fannie Cooper. 
Woodruff, Ruth Plaisted (Mrs. F. C). 



L. 1894. Young, Mrs. Caroline. 

C. 1884. Young, Carrie Edith. 

C. 18S5. Young, Emma Josephine. 

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